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Overview of the Census Bureau. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Statistics of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1985
This document contains hearings on the oversight of the Census Bureau. The Hon. Robert Garcia (chairman of the subcommittee) presided. The statement of the Hon. Robert T. Matsui, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, indicated a concern regarding what definition should be used to reflect accurately the extent of poverty in…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Hearings
Comprehensive Employment and Training Programs and HEW Consultants--Abuse and Mismanagement. Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session. Special Oversight Hearings.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Appropriations. – 1979
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on the abuse and mismanagement of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Programs and to determine if the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is making proper use of consultants. Among those testifying were Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, who discussed…
Descriptors: Consultants, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Hearings
Oversight Hearing on Federal Library Programs. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education and the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on the Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1979
This publication details the proceedings of an oversight hearing on federal library programs which focused on those programs that (1) make federal funds available to school districts to purchase instructional materials and school library resources, (2) authorize funds for the support of college and university libraries and for the improvement of…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Hearings, Learning Resources Centers
Death before Life: The Tragedy of Infant Mortality. Report. [With] Appendix and Testimonies at the National Hearing (4th, Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1988).
National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, Washington, DC. – 1988
A child born in Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Singapore, or any of 12 other industrialized nations has a better chance of surviving his or her first year than does a child born in the United States. This is because too many babies are born too small, too many are born too soon, and too many mothers never get decent care…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Birth Weight, Community Programs, Employed Parents
Awakening the Slumbering Giant: Intergovernmental Relations and Federal Grant Law. An Information Report.
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC. – 1980
Eight papers from a one-day conference for lawyers, judges, and policy-makers discuss the effects on intergovernmental relations of the emerging body of laws, regulations, and court decisions governing federal grants and their recipients. The expanding importance of federal grants, notes an introduction to the papers, has meant both less leeway…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Community Development, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation